The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-03
Religious Notes.

Sir Philip Sidney: There is no service like his
who serves because he loves
Hebrew Standard: Sensational preaching is
nothing but the pulpit touching its cap to the
stage.
Boston Journal: A we'll known city missionary
says there are thirty different languages spoken
in Boston.
Messrs. Moody and Murphy are still at work
in Chicago and their meetings are increasing in
interest and good results.
DR.. Lansdsll, the English missionary. dis
tributed in ono year no less than $1,000 Bibles
among the exiles Of Siberia.
Theodore Parker: Let men laugh when you
sacrifice desire to duty. If they will. You have
time and eternity to rejoice in.
The Chicago Interior says that the Presbyte-
rian Church in the United States has 5.546 or
dained ministers, of whom about FIVE thousand
are fit for service
Professor Phelps: If man is faithful to
truth, truth will be faithful to him. He need
have no fears. His success is q question of
time
Pere Hyacinthe is making arrane ements to
preach in the Protestant Episcopal Church. in
the Avenue Alma, Paris. 1t is expected that the
event will mark the final severance OF his con-
nection with the popish church.
Bishop Taylor is now at work in Liberia, where
he is to remain until May, when he will leave in
time to meet the company of nine recruits from
America, and accompany them to their fields of
labor in the free State of the Congo
What thing is harder than the rock7
What softer is than water cleere2
Yet wylI the same. with often droppe
The hard rock perez. as doth spere;
Even so, nothing so hard to attayne.
But may be hadd with labour and payne.
Spurgeon: While am here will be a child
at home with my God; the whole world shall be
His house to me, and when l ascend into the
upper chamber l shall not change my company
nor even change the house l shall only go to
dwell IN the upper story of the Lords house for
ever.
According to the Missionary Review, a British
publication, there are now 80 women's foreign
miss onary societies, with II. 763 auxiliares and
1884 children's bands They employ $50 mis-
sionaries and 1.644 Bible readers and teachers.
have 81. 600 pupils in them. 2091 shoots and have
an income of f233, 900 ($l,165, 000)
DR. Livinestons's faithful servant. Susi who
with Chuma. brought the body of their trusted
leader half way across Africa. that it might rest
in his native land. has recently been baptized by
q member of the Universities mission. Susi re-
ceived the name of David in baptism, in memory
Of the noble man who first taught him what 1T
was to be Christian.
theological seminary is projected by Michi
gan Presbyterians for Ann Arbor. society
has been organized to that end. and wealthy
woman has decided them one of the best locations
in the city for site, besides giving them in her
will a fine house andlo adjoining. Fifty thous-
and dollars are to be raised in the State, of which
| $4,000 will be used for building.
The lines given below are we'll worth commit.
| ting to memory for the lesson of perseverance,
| they teach. The queer spelling of some of the
| words shows that they were written very long
| time ago. They are carved on one of the wall
panels of an ancient and partly ruined building
| in Cornwall, England. Accompanying them is
| painting of water dropping from rock:
The Rev. 10 Cook is evidently on O heavy
| down grade in the estimation of Boston people.
| The Herald says he has ceased to be even inter
| estins. and adds: "His manner of treating CUES
| tons has no longer novelty, and his egotisln is
| becoming trihe tiresome. He has never gone
deep enough into his topics at any time to afford
essential edihcation to those whom he addresses
| Bishop Potter, in open letter to the Eps-
| copal clergy. has notified them that the changes
| made in the Prayer Book not discretionary
but obligatory, unless so stated in the rubric.
| He says that ''the church has incorporated them
| into her worship, and until the same authority
| that did so shall remove them 1t is not within
the discretion of any minister of this church 70
| omit or dsuse them."
| According to the Canadian Baptist encourag-
| ing reports are being received regarding the
| work of the American missionaries at BanZa
| Manteka, town 140 miles from the mouth of
| the Congo and forty miles above the lowest fall
| There are now 100 converts and the region is no
longer a heather country The throat-cuttng.
the diabolical dances. the poison giving, hitherto
common, are no more
| 1t was in An experience meeting in an African
| Methodist church over in Virginia A new con-
| vert had been giving in his confession. He had
told his brethren and his sisters all the sins of
| his life, and more, too. with all their aCgrava-
| tions. He had confessed to every crime known
to the statutes, and every sin known to the Deca-
| logue. When he paused for breath. gasping at
| his own wckedness, brother in the gallery
shouted solemnly: Put out dat lamp why
| forla asked the pastor. Coz" said the solemn
| brother, "de viles' sinner done return
AS is well known the bishops of the English
| Church take as their surname the name of their
| diocese. Custom has given a sort of fitness TO
this practice in tie case of the old dioceses of
| England but some of the hapless colonial bish-
| ops are by the rule obliged to assume very gro
/ tesque names In the Official Year Book of the
| English Church, we find, for instance the follow
| ing names: H. Barbados etc, Alfred Honolu-
| Ia, J. Moonsonee, A. j. r. Qu'Appele. G. H.
| North Queensland. R. Ruperts Land, z. n.
| Travancore and Cochin. and E. c. Waipee.
Common Sense in Religion.
| Christian World